122 ORD. 5. AwARYLLIDEX. Cl. 6, Spathacee. Lirtogame. 
extremity of their Embryo I do not hesitate to say is invariably di- 
rected towards the Micropyle, but when the Seed swells to a large 
size, this is removed by the dilatation of the Hilum to a considerable 
distance from the nourishing duct, being placed at the opposite end 
of the Hilum as in Leguminose ; an the time many of these 
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however often con ter the Radicle comes out 
a passage through other substances i is astonishing, rarely turning out 
ace! 
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eve aparen y with as much ease as the lightest earth, and often 
a direction contrary to gravitation. Any Botanist desirous of 
siii this, needs only to tie a piece of Muslin round the Capsule of 
Amaryllis longifolia L. a little before it is ripe, and by placing that 
afterwards in any moist part of the Stove, he will soon find the Seeds 
sewed together by their Radicles, as completely as by a piece of String, 
see Tab. fig. Before the Plumula òr first Leaf is evolved an in- 
cipient Bulb forms at its base the outer coat of that being part of the 
Cotyledon, to which physical law I know no exception, though the 
Deity has probably ordained, that no physical law shall be uni niversal, 
ving in Cyamus afforded us an instance of the Embryo germinating 
without pushing out its seminal Radicle. The Ist Section of Ama- 
ryllideæ is distinguished by the Leaves, which continue vegetating 
sal 
shaped Segments generally equal in breadth ; Fila ments in a single 
series at the very margin of the Tube, not decurrent but more or less 
knobbed at their base, “often slightly irregular by being approximated 
towards the lower side ; and the e Style always slightly reclinated. 
Formerly in Paradisus Londinensis I combined all the perennial-leaved 
Species of the Order under Crinum, but DRxANDER convinced me that 
it would be much better to exclude those of Sterra Leone as well as 
the Cape of Good Hope, and the Genus as he defined it in the 2nd 
edition of Hortus Kewensis is sufficiently numerous, containing at 
Cri "fior Y is 
another figure of it i the Hon. ~ Hersert has Sed published by 
Dr. Suus, so faulty with respect to its Leaves, that they rather re- 
